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Archive for November 19th, 2008

BBC News: BNP members ‘targeted by threats’

19 November, 2008

BNP leader Nick Griffin: ‘We’re disappointed’

BNP members have told BBC News they have received threatening and abusive phone calls and e-mails after a leaked document was published online.”

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Wacky Jacqui’s £12bn gIMP could be unleashed by 2012: “

But ‘nothing decided’ on comms überdatabase, says Home Office

The government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP), a plan by spy chiefs to centrally collect details of every phone call, text, email and web browsing session of every UK resident, could be in place by 2012, according to a Home Office minister.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Australia ISPs Call Net Filtering Plan ‘Ridiculous’ – Largest ISP participates in trials just to prove it… – dslreports.com

02:17PM Friday Nov 14 2008 by Karl Bode

Over the last few years, Australian lawmakers have been enamored with the idea of Internet filters, spending almost a hundred million on filtering technology that a teenager was able to circumnavigate in just a few minutes. When Internet filters were voluntary and made available for download, the numbers showed that nobody used them. Undeterred, the Australian government is going forward with mandatory filters nobody can opt-out of. Michael Malone, boss of Australia’s largest ISP iiNet, says the carrier will be signing up for trials of Australia’s new mandatory Internet filtering system, though even Malone thinks it’s a bad idea:
Malone’s main purpose was to provide the Government with ‘hard numbers’ demonstrating ‘how stupid it is’ – specifically that the filtering system would not work, would be patently simple to bypass, would not filter peer-to-peer traffic and would significantly degrade network speeds. ‘They’re not listening to the experts, they’re not listening to the industry, they’re not listening to consumers, so perhaps some hard numbers will actually help,’ he said. ‘Every time a kid manages to get through this filter, we’ll be publicising it and every time it blocks legitimate content, we’ll be publicising it.’
Malone goes on to opine that Australia’s Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, ‘is the worst Communications Minister we’ve had in the 15 years since the [internet] industry has existed.’

So far similar efforts here in the States have either been simply too stupid to work or ruled unconstitutional. But as we mentioned last month, with child porn used as a rallying cry, there’s a growing push in the States to use Deep Packet Inspection to monitor each and every packet you send and receive for legality.

BNP leaked list claims first victims: “

Genie + bottle = foot + mouth

The first public sector employees are waking up to the fallout from the leaking of the BNP membership list yesterday.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Academics warn of EU ‘three strikes’ back door plan: “

Disconnection looms

European law is introducing a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ law for ISPs to disconnect illegal file sharers ‘under cover of stealth’, according to legal experts. The EU’s telecoms reform package could guarantee the legality of such schemes.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Filesharing ambulance chasers get into the gay smut racket: “

Davenporn Lyons defends Army F*ckers

The law firm Davenport Lyons, best known online for accusing people of illegally filesharing on behalf of video games companies and threatening to take them to court if they don’t pay hundreds of pounds, has now begun doing the same for producers of hardcore gay porn. It denied any plans to work for ‘adult entertainment’ rights holders less than three months ago.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

BNP membership data breach: the workplace implications: “A list of members of the British National Party (BNP) has been published online, including thousands of names, addresses and email addresses. The party claims that the security breach was likely to be a deliberate act of ‘political malevolence’.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

I must have missed this one out, Waris Ali was found not guilty of three counts of possession of an article for a terrorist purpose. His school friend Dabeer Hussain was also acquitted of one count of the same charge at Leeds Crown Court.

BBC News: Teenage bomb plot accused cleared

Two teenagers who were accused of discussing a plot to blow up British National Party (BNP) members have been cleared of terror charges.

Waris Ali, 18, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was found not guilty of three counts of possession of an article for a terrorist purpose.

His school friend Dabeer Hussain, 18, was acquitted of one count of the same charge at Leeds Crown Court.

After the 13-day trial Mr Ali said he was ‘extremely relieved’.

Friends and family of the two men hugged in the public gallery as the jury returned their verdicts after deliberating for two and a half hours.

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Radio DJ fired after BNP teachers, police and lawyers are exposed in membership list leak | Mail Online: “Radio DJ fired after BNP teachers, police and lawyers are exposed in membership list leak

By Michael Lea and Nicola Boden, Last updated at 3:24 PM on 19th November 2008

* Radio DJ sacked by TalkSport after name was on list
* Policeman also named is put under investigation
* Members ‘receive threatening calls after publication’
* BNP leader alleges calls are ‘dirty tricks’ by Labour”

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Another case which involves the Anarchist’s Cookbook..

Alleged terrorists wanted ‘violent jihad’ – News – Manchester Evening News

Nicola Dowling, 25/ 9/2008

A MANCHESTER taxi driver was a secret member of al-Qaida who had a terrorists’ ‘contacts book’ with phone numbers written in invisible ink, a court was told.

Habib Ahmed, 28, of Cheetham Hill, attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and was funded in his activities by his wife Mehreen Haji, it was claimed.

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